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Women In Film Los Angeles has selected the first class of participants for its new Emerging Producers Program, which is designed to provide women and non-binary people access to master classes, mentorship and advising early in their producing careers. Participants looking to build careers across various producing…

Women in Film Los Angeles has a half-dozen new board members. New to the board are Niija Kuykendall, EVP Production at Warner Bros Pictures; Michelle Lee, Director of Domestic Programming at AppleTV+; film producer Monica Levinson Borat Subsequent Moviefilm; Chris Nee, creator and EP of Doc McStuffins; Shivani Rawat…

For the second year running, Women in Film has released its awards-season ballot recognizing “all of the women whose work behind the camera made the film landscape of 2020 possible.” The inaugural version of the ballot was released in 2019 just as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association unveiled its Golden Globe…

The Black List and WIF (Women In Film, Los Angeles) have unveiled the participants who have won spots in their fifth annual Episodic Lab as well as the annual Feature Lab. The Episodic Lab provides mentorship and career opportunities to six rising women television writers over the course of a year. The Lab runs twice…

UPDATED, 1:45 PM: Hillary Clinton has joined a stellar list of influential women in film and television set for the CW’s/Women In Film Make It Work variety special, a benefit focused on helping women get back to work as the industry recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. Joining Clinton are Sheryl Crow, Malin Akerman…

Women in Film Los Angeles on Wednesday launched Hire Her Back, an initiative to call on entertainment companies to continue to seek gender and racial equality in their hiring as the the industry looks to return to film and TV production after the COVID-19 shutdown. Key to the initiative is the Hire Her Back Fund, a…

Women in Film, ReFrame and IMDbPro have teamed on a short-film contest for the coronavirus era. They have launched the Curbside Shorts Filmmaking Challenge, in which women and non-binary filmmakers from North America create a brief movie inspired by life while sheltering in place. All genres are welcome, and…

The Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity (TTIE) has released their second “Behind the Scenes: The State of Inclusion and Equity in TV Writing” report and although the industry has seen an increase in efforts to monitor and track representation in writers rooms, underrepresented voices are still jumping over…

UPDATED with new additions to ballot: Talk about fortuitous timing. Women in Film has partnered with Women and Hollywood and NYWIFT to launch the “Vote for Women” campaign today — just as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association unveiled its Golden Globe nominations, which includes zero women for its film directing cate…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and Women In Film Los Angeles (WIF LA) has unveiled the participants for their episodic lab, which is in its fourth year. The program is an effort between The Black List and WIF LA that provides mentorship and career opportunities to six rising women television writers. Beginning October 1, …

First, the news: This year's Women in Film Gala, held Wednesday night at the Beverly Hilton, showed this group means business by introducing three new awards honoring Hollywood's female entrepreneurs: The WIF Entrepreneur in Entertainment Award, Emerging Entrepreneur Award, and the WIF Members Choice Award. The first…

Amy Poehler, Issa Rae, Elizabeth Debicki and Cathy Schulman will be honored at this year’s Women In Film Annual Gala, the new name of Women in Film Los Angeles’ annual awards event that had been known as the Crystal + Lucy Awards since 1994. This year’s gala is set for June 12 at the Beverly Hilton, with The Mindy Proj…